Barbara "Elizabeth" Linington (born March 11, 1921 in Aurora Kane, Illinois; died April 05, 1988 in Arroyo Grande, San Luis Obispo, California) was an American freelance novelist. She was awarded runner-up for best mystery from Mystery Writers of America for her 1962 tome, Knave of Hearts. Regarded as the "Queen of the Procedurals," she was the first woman to write police procedurals — a male-dominated genre of police-story writing. March 11 is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Look up Aurora, aurora in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Kane is a village located in Greene County, Illinois. ... April 5 is the 95th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (96th in leap years). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arroyo Grande is a city located in San Luis Obispo County, California. ... San Luis Obispo, San Luis, or SLO (Spanish for ) is a city in California. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... The Mystery Writers of America are an organization for mystery writers. ... The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which tries to demonstrate accurately the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. ...

Bibliography

Linington wrote under several monikers, including: Anne Blaisdell, Lesley Egan, Egan O'Neill, and Dell Shannon. Books she authored include:

Elizabeth Linington

• Greenmask! (1964)
• No Evil Angel (1964)
• Date with Death (1966)
• Something Wrong (1967)
• Policeman's Lot (1968)
• Practice to Deceive (1971)
• Crime by Chance (1973)
• Perchance of Death (1977)
• No Villain Need Be (1979)
• Consequence of Crime (1980)
• Skeletons in the Closet (1982)
• Felony Report (1984)
• Strange Felony (1986)
• Alter Ego (1988)

Moniker employed: Anne Blaisdell

• Nightmare (1961)

Moniker employed: Lesley Egan

• The Borrowed Alibi (1961)
• A Case for Appeal (1962)
• Against the Evidence (1962)
• Run to Evil (1963)
• My Name Is Death (1964)
• Detective's Due (1965)
• Some Avenger, Rise! (1966)
• The Nameless Ones (1967)
• A Serious Investigation (1968)
• The Wine of Violence (1969)
• In the Death of a Man (1970)
• Malicious Mischief (1971)
• Paper Chase (1972)
• Scenes of Crime (1976)
• The Blind Search (1977)
• Look Back on Death (1978)
• A Dream Apart (1978)
• The Hunters and the Hunted (1979)
• Motive in Shadow (1980)
• A Choice of Crimes (1980)
• The Miser (1981)
• Random Death (1982)
• Little Boy Lost (1983)
• Crime for Christmas (1984)
• Chain of Violence (1985)
• The Wine of Life (1985)

Moniker employed: Egan O'Neill

• The Anglophile (1957)

Moniker employed: Dell Shannon

• Case Pending (1960)
• The Ace of Spades (1961)
• Extra Kill (1962)
• Knave of Hearts (1962)
• Death of a Busybody (1963)
• Double Bluff (1963)
• Mark of Murder (1964)
• Root of All Evil (1964)
• The Death-Bringers (1965)
• Death by Inches (1965)
• Coffin Corner (1966)
• With a Vengeance (1966)
• Chance to Kill (1967)
• Rain with Violence (1967)
• Kill with Kindness (1968)
• Crime on Their Hands (1969)
• Schooled to Kill (1969)
• Unexpected Death (1970)
• Whim to Kill (1971)
• The Ringer (1971)
• Murder with Love (1972)
• With Intent to Kill (1972)
• No Holiday for Crime (1973)
• Spring of Violence (1973)
• Crime File (1974)
• Deuces Wild (1975)
• Streets of Death (1976)
• Appearances of Death (1977)
• Cold Trail (1978)
• Felony at Random (1979)
• Felony File (1980)
• Murder Most Strange (1981)
• The Motive on Record (1982)
• Exploit of Death (1983)
• Destiny of Death (1984)
• Chaos of Crime (1985)
• Blood Count (1986)
• Murder by the Tale (short stories) (1987)
• The Manson Curse 1990

Trivia

Other subjects of interest to Linington include archaeology, the occult, gemstones, antique weapons and languages. Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For the Gemstone as a mineral see Gemstone. ...

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